Located in southwest Tennessee, the city of Memphis sits on a bluff atop the Mississippi River. With around 670,000 residents, the City is the largest in the State and the second largest in the southeastern part of the US. The Memphis metropolitan area has just below 1.3 million residents and includes counties in Arkansas and Mississippi. Memphis perhaps best known for “Graceland”, the former home of Elvis Presley, and as the location of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King.